Millions of tweets and millions of state documents. Intimate oral histories and presidential phone calls. Ancient pottery and yesterday’s memes. An immense amount of historical material is now available online. Historians have access to all these digitized documents for doing research, but what else can we do with them?

The Public and Digital History Seminar experimented with ways to make interesting archival material available and useful to the public. They digitized documents from UT archives, they wrote blogs and lesson plans, and they built websites to share their work with the world. But first they will be presenting their projects to you.

9:30-9:40am |  INTRODUCTION

• JOAN NEUBERGER, Professor of History, and Editor, Not Even Past

9:40-10:10am 

• SUZANNE E. BUCHANAN
  The Rainey Controversy
• MARTHA SUE KARNES
  Enter the Black Gate

10:15-10:45am

• ALEXANDER CHAPARRO-SILVA
  Slavery in Colombia: Abolition, Freedom, and Citizenship, 1821-1851
• DIANA HEREDIA-LOPEZ
  A Witch in New Spain

10:50-11:30am

• JEREMEY DONNELLY-RUTLEDGE
  A Public Responsibility: The Hogg Foundation and Mental Healthcare in Texas
• ALAN GARCIA
  Shaw’s Food Store and Market: Images of Mid-Century Life in East Austin’s Black Community
• YENIBEL RUIZ MIRABAL
  The U.S. Needs Latin America: Rómulo Betancourt at the OAS, 1948

11:30-11:45am |  CONCLUSIONS

• Questions and Discussion